Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-06-02
AMONG THE MORMONS.
The Extra ordinary Green-Room Con
nected with the Salt Lake Theater.


nected with the Salt Lake Theater.
A shopping tour of Salt Lake is in
complete if the Chinese stores are
| neglected. Especially in one of these
the bric-a-brac is very fine. There
| were some magic tea-pots here. OF
which Ho Hop told us he had sold sew
eral for progressive euchre prizes.
From thes the ebeverage will pour tor
some, and refuse to pour for others, I'M
| til the secret is revealed of tiny air
hole in the handle, which. if inadver-
tently covered by the hand, restraints
the amber fluid, and the pot appears
as dry as the desert. Ho Hop told
some tourists in our hearing one day,
that there was prejudice
in the capital against the vul-
garity of giving any thing of money
value for euchre prizes; that their
value must come from something in
herently unique about the gift. This
was not his language, but what he
said conveyed the sentiment to the
Bostonians. Ho Hop has tea that he
sells for thirty-six dollars a pound,
which seemed grown expressly for the
little cup at the queen s-ware store.
| Secondhand stores seem to flourish
here. They are numerous and look
prosperous, probably because the Nor
mons are people addicted to
barter. They were here money
less in the desert for so long,
that the habit of trading formed clings
to them. In instance of their habit OF
barter, there used to be two green
rooms in the Salt Lake theater. one
the legitimate professional green
room; the other sort of green grocery
where was received all kinds of produce
taken in exchange for tickets. One OF
those typical old residents who are re-
sponsible for so much, says that in
some of the outlying villages this habit
still obtains when home troupe is per-
forming, and that if man slightly
overpays by giving in three very fine
pumpkins for his fare. he gets back,
for change, a small pumpkin with his
ticket.
In the towns remote from the rail-
road, other primitive methods obtain.
Dances in the Mormon school-house
are frequent-for the Mormons have
} their schools, where knowledge
comes, but wisdom fingers" These
dances are opened and closed by
prayer.
The church authorities have lately
Z issued a pastoral letter, limiting the
number of round-dances to three in on'
evening. The young men-here al
+ Notwithstanding to the dictates o.
custom, replenish their wardrobe
l preparatory to attending dances; bu
7 here it is not by such trifles as a new
| cravat and gloves. Fashion here de
1 mands. instead, pair of bright nev
n suspenders, and new pair of top
g boots, brilliantly banded at the tol
with patch of green. scarlet or pur
= pie leather to match the new suspend
It ers. From this it is not to be inferre'
y that their light is hid under bushel
e for they dance in their shirt-sleeyes
It their pants curtailed at the knee by be
T ing thrust into their new top-boots.
: But this is seeing Utah in her frivol
: tiles. She has also her grave aspects
: Her loyal men, little band, are of iha
o sturdy mold which Emerson typifie
y when he said: ''Some men, if plante
It upon marble slab, would take root.
d She has her loyal women, wives sue
d as such men choose. She has he
= schools. She has her sacrilegiou
e churches where Christ is preached as
1t polygamist. She has her polls wher
h every Mormon voice cries treason; he
II Gentle press. run smoothly by able &c
h itors who are prodigals in the mic
C night oil. She has the stirring diseor
a tent, which, always an earnest OF be
# ter times, presages change.-K 1
IT Forqeron, in Wonsaa's Magazine.